Locality vs Resident - What's the difference?
locality | resident |
The fact or quality of having a position in space.
* Glanvill
(p) The features or surroundings of a particular place.
The situation or position of an object.
An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
Limitation to a county, district, or place.
(dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
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A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Davenant
As nouns the difference between locality and resident
is that locality is the fact or quality of having a position in space while resident is resident.As a verb resident is
.locality
English
Noun
(localities)- It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality .
- locality of trial
- (Blackstone)
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*resident
English
(wikipedia resident)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* permanent residentAdjective
(en adjective)- resident in the city or in the country
- He is our resident computer expert.
- stable and resident like a rock
- one there still resident as day and night